Waxer



Nov. 21, 1933. F. RIEBEL, JR., m- AL 17,936,368

WAXER Filed Jan. 25, 1952 Patented Nov. 21, 1933 NAXER Application January 25, 1932. Serial No. 583,831

6 Claims.

Our invention relates to waxers and has as its primary object to provide a waxer capable of distributing a very uniform film of wax upon a surface to be treated. Floor wax is a substance which is quite difficult to handle and the waxing of floors has been a task not only arduous but difficult to perform properly. One of the biggest dilhculties encountered has been that of securing uniform distribution of the wax.

It is our object to secure the above result in a waxer wherein a renewable wax filled dispensing package is employed in conjunction with an applicator adapted to hold the package and to apply pressure ther to for feeding the wax. Another object is to solve, in the above type of we -er, a serious problem met with in waxers generally, namely, the hardening and caking of the wax and the resol clogging of delivery channels. This accomplished generally by employing a construction wherein the wax package is held by the applicator in a position closely adjacent and parallel to the surface to be treated and wherein pressure applied by the applicator results in the wax being fed through a suitable perforation in the wall of the package.

An object of our invention is to provide a waxer of this type which is of very simple construction enabling any on .-:illed operator to quickly and easily renew an exhausted package of wax. A further object is to provide a construction employing a wax package of extreme simplicity, having a shape adapting it perfectly for shipment in quantities, lending itself readily to packaging and display, and adapted to be completely exhausted of its supply of wax by the applicator before it is necessary to renew the package.

A further object of our invention is to provide a waxer of this type wherein there is no physical connection between the package and the applicator, the package simply being contained between two separable members comprising the applicator.

Another object is to provide a waxer or" this type wherein the two separable members of the applicator have, in addition to their function of closing the wax package, two additional capacities, the lower member of the applicator serving as a distributor for distributin the wax upon the surface to be treated and the upper member of the applicator serving as a head for applying pressure to the package.

Another object is to provide a waxer of this type which is adapted to be used not only with an ordinary handle holder but also may be used in connection with the floor tool of a vacuum cleaner, serving as a holder.

With these and other objects in View our inventicn consists in the combination and construction and arrangement of the various parts thereof, whereby the objects contemplated are attained,

more fully set forth in the accompanying specifications, pointed out in our claims, and illus trated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

l is a plan view of a waxer embodying our invention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View taken through one end of the waxer.

3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing that form of the invention which is attachable to the tool of a vacuumcleaner.

t is a longitudinal sectional view through one end of the assembly shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional View taken through one end of the waxer shown in Fig; 3.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to'Fig. 2 showing a :nodified form of the distributor.

We have used the reference character A to indicate, in each form of the invention, the re newable wax package. Similarly, the reference character B indicates generally the distributor member. Similarly, the reference character C indicates the shoe which cooperates with the distributor B to form the applicator in which the package A is enclosed. i

The reference character 1) indicates generally in each form of the invention, a holder from which the shoe C is suspended.

The present invention involves the conception of employing a wax package comprising a block of wax provided with a cover or wrapper of very thin and flexible although relatively toughmaterial, and completely enclosing this package within an applicator so arranged as to present the package with one flat face close to and parallel to the surface to be treated and to apply pressure to the package so as to feed the wax from the face lying adjacent the surface across the very short intervening space to the surface to be treated.

The complete enclosing of the package makes it possible to employ a very thin wrapper, the applicator walls lending support to the wrapper to prevent rupture thereof.

In turn, the use of a very thin and flexible wrapper makes it possible to completely collapse the package so as to utilize substantially all of the wax contained therein. In this particular, the invention involves the conception of Y the employment of an applicator including one mem- Ill) her movable within another, the walls of the outer member being parallel to the axis of movement so that the cross sectional shape and area of the package in a plane parallel to the surface being treated, remains unaltered as the package is deformed under pressure of the applicator. This avoids expansion such as might cause rupture of the package and insures a snug fit between the two members of the applicator at any of their relative positions.

The distributor B is formed with a pan or receptacle having the side walls 10, end walls 11, and bottom wall 12, the latter being perforated at 13 with a slot running longitudinally of the receptacle.

The distributor also includes a distributor shoe which in its detachable form shown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive, includes a sheet metal shell comprising a plate 14 and a peripheral flange 15 to receive the distributor receptacle and a central longitudinal slot 16 to register with the slot 13.

A sheet of fabric 1'7, having a length somewhat less than the length of the slot 16, is extended around each half of the distributor shoe shell, and secured between an anchor plate 18 and the inner shell plate 14. Tongues 20 struck upwardly from the shell plate 14 are extended through the anchor plate 18.

The tongues 20 are bent over to secure the anchor plate 18 in clamping engagement with the extremities of the distributor fabric 17. It will be noted that the edge of the anchor plate snugly holds the fabric in the corner between the plate 14 and flange 15 of the shell, and the fabric will be pulled tightly around the shell by the anchor plate as it is clamped down against the inner face of the shell. The anchor plate also serves to cover and conceal both edges of the fabric.

The distributor shoe slips over the bottom portion of the distributor receptacle, the flange 15 being of the proper dimensions to receive the receptacle.

The end portions of the flange 15 (Fig. 4) are provided with depressions '70 which receive lugs 71 pressed into the end walls 11 of the distributor receptacle. There is sufficient resiliency in the flange 15 to allow the flange to snap over these lugs, and the latter serve to securely support the distributor shoe on the distributor receptacle.

In Fig. 6 we have shown a modified form of the distributor in which the distributing shoe is formed by the bottom wall 12 of the receptacle and a sheet of fabric 23 extended around both sides and ends of the receptacle and clamped within the peripheral shouldered flange 24 by means of a clamping ring 25. The wall 12 has the same slot 13 as is shown in Fig. 4, and the fabric 23 is provided with a slot (not shown) to register with a slot in the bottom wall 12.

The wax package A comprises a block of wax 26 shaped to flt the horizontal cross sectional shape of the receptacle, preferably flat on its upper and lower faces so as to have uniform thickness in alldirections horizontally, and encased in a wrapper of thin tough material 27 such as the product commercially known as Cellophane.

The presser head C in that form of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, comprises a hollow block of cast metal having the side walls 28 and bottom wall 29, the side walls 28 being shaped to fit snugly within the side walls 10 of the distributor receptacle and the bottom wall 29 being shaped to fit the upper surface of the wax package A. An interiorly threaded boss 30 receives an ordinary wooden handle 31 which serves as the holder for the applicator.

In that form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 5, the head is formed of stamped sheet metal, having little weight in itself and relying upon the weight of the holder D or the pressure applied thereto'for giving pressure to the wax package. This form of the head has a back plate 32 to which is welded an inverted cup shaped saddle having side flanges 33 and top wall 34.

Yokes 35 are swingingly pivoted by suitable rivets or the like 36 to the flanges 33 near the respective ends of the head.

The particular type of vacuum cleaner floor tool to which this head is adapted to be attached is one having a hollow mouth defined between agitator members 41 in a nozzle 38 which is swivelled at 39 upon a suction neck 40.

Referring now to Fig. 5, it isto be noted that the suction nozzle 38 projects laterally of the neck 40, and that the yokes 35 are arranged to be swung from substantially horizontal positions, around the ends of the floor tool nozzle, to substantially upstanding positions engaging the semi-spherical heads of screws 42 mounted in the ends of the floor tool.

The screw 42 is an element which is found in this particular type of floor tool, serving to retain within the socket 43 a floor tool wheel mounting which is removed when the vacuum cleaner is employed as a holder for the waxer of this invention.

The head is provided with tongues 44 receivable between the agitators 41 of the nozzle mouth, just within the end walls 46 of the nozzle. The agitators 41 will contact the wall 34 of the head, and the yokes 35 are adapted to spring into place to snugly hold the parts in this relation. In order to prevent the yokes slipping from the heads of the screws 42, they are provided with indentations 4'7 to receive the spherical screw heads.

Means are provided for attaching the head to the distributor receptacle in such a manner that while the head is allowed to move freely into the receptacle, it will be retained against disengagement from the receptacle. This means comprises a spring latch member 54 which in that form of the invention employing the cast metal head of Figs. 2 and 4, engages with a hook 55 on a keeper member 56 secured by means of a screw 59 in a slot 57 extending vertically in the end wall 58 of the shoe.

The latch 54 is secured to the end wall 11 of the distributor receptacle as by welding at 60, and is provided near its upper end with a detent 61 provided with an inclined portion 62 against which the keeper hook 55 may ride when the head is being inserted into the distributor receptacle, in order to force the latch outwardly and and to allow the keeper hook to pass the detent. The detent 61 extends through a slot 48 in the end wall 11.

In that form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 5, the projecting out-turned edge portion 63 of the head flange33, by means of which the upper portion of the head is welded to the back plate 32, serves to engage the detent 61, thus having the function of the keeper hook 55.

It is to be noted that the head may move freely below the detents 61 but will engage the detents if moved upwardly, so as to carry the distributor receptacle in depending relation to itself.

which registers the slo Turning now to the operation of the device, after the parts have been assembled with a package of wax en losed within the distributor, and the distributor shoe in place, a sharp instrument may be inserted through the slots 13-16 and the lower wall of the wrapper 27 pierced to provide a slit register ng with the slot i l.

The applicator is then placed upon the floor or surface to be waxed, with t e fiat lower faces of the fabric i l in con -"t szch surface, the weight of the head 6 once serving to urge the wax 26 through the sl 7 in its wrapp l through the slots l3-l6 upon the surface being treated. As the WE-Jifil is moved and forth over the surface, the wax will g ads way to the surface as just described, will thence be distributed over the surface by the fabric face of ti e distributor head.

It is to be noted that th wax after passing through the slot 16 will be engaged by the entire width of one side or the other the distributor shoe, depending on which way the applicator is being moved, before it is finally left a ti film on the surface of the floor.

The wax has to travel but a very short distance from the dispensing package to the surface to be treated and thus the tendency of the wax. to dry out and cake in the feeding mouth of the applicator is mi imized.

The distributor shoe has a rigid shape which is flat, to conform at all times with a fiat flo surface and thus there is assured a cont-.ct b tween the entire of the distributor a; the surface being waxed.

There is just su; cient play between the shoe C and the receptacle of the distributor to create a rocking movement of the presser head as the waxer is moved back and forth, causing a better feed" g of the wax.

The metal walls of I re applicator which encaso the package of wax lend support to all portions of the thin wrapper in which the block of is contained, so as to prevent rupture of the wrapper under the pressure of the applicator.

' The wrapper on the other and, is sealed around the block of wax, so th t it is impossible for any wax .vhatever to escape through the wrapper in any d 'ection exce t through the slit t 13. As shown in Fig. 2, the edges of the wrapper adjacent the slit will be forced downwardly through the slot 13 as at 65, and will thus be seale against the edges of the bottom 12 defining the slot 13 so as to prevent the wax warring back into the distributor receptacle. The parts also be arranged so that the edge portions 66 may contact the edges of the anchor plates 18 so as to prevent the wax working between the anchor plates the lower surface of the wall 72.

Thus the wrapper serves a dispensing container for the wax so as to insure that every particle of the wax will feed through the distributor head and prevent exuding of the wax into the distributor receptacle, and in turn is suppor ed against rupture by the rigid walls of the applicator.

It being thus possible to use a very thin inaterial as a dispensing container for the wax, without the danger of rupture, it is easy to feed substantially all of the wax from the package so as to utilize the greatest percentage of the wax contained therein. In buckling under the downward movement of the shoe, the exceedingly thin walls of the material employed will collapse so as to allow the shoe to approach very closely to the bottom of the receptacle and thus feed practically all of the wax from the package.

Under the substantially uniform pressure of the applicator produced by the ordinary opera tion of the device, there will be a very slow but continuous and uniform fiow of wax through the mouth of the distributor shoe and onto the sur face being waxed. This 11. orm flow of wax must necessarily result in a uniform distribution of wax to the surface being treated. Furthermore, since the wax is applied with a continuous feeding, it is possible to apply it in a much thinner film than is ordinarily-produced in those devices which do not produce a steady flow of wax.

As a result of the application of the wax in a thinner film, it is much easier to polish the surface after the wax been applied. It is common knowledge that a thick film of polishing material is such more difficult to reduce to a hard, glazed coating than a thin. film of material.

As a further consequence of the ability to apply the wax in a thinner film than heretofore, considerable saving in wax is effected.

The uniformity of flow results from the interposingof the wax pacl-zage between the distributor portion the presser head portion of the applicator whereby the downward pressure of the shoe is transmitted. to the distributor through the medium of the wax package and, the package being thus of shoe and the opposing upward pressure of the distributor, is compressed slightly so as to feed its wax gradually uniformly to the surface being treated. The. invention in its essential elements thus com" rises a sealed package of wax enclosed within and supported by a two.

part applicator, the lower part servin as a distributor for spreading the was on the surface being treated and the wax package serving as a medium for transn ting pressure from the j upper part to the lower during such distributing operation and being thereby compressed for the feeding of the wax.

The. slot 13 being a continuous one, extending from one end of the applicator to the other, the wax will feed freely enough to secure the desired feeding movement. The radius of distribution is determined by the length of the slot. "The body of wax in feeding to the slot 13, is allowed to move bodily in a gradual flow toward the axial center of the mass. it has been found that other types of openings, for instance, a series of small openings, offer too much resistance to the flow of wax.

We claim as our invention:

1. in a device for spreading plastic surfacing material, a collapsible container of liquid impervious thin flexible substance in which a body of said mate "ial is enclosed, and a two partapplicator enclosing and supporting the walls of said sure applying part so as to cause it to rock against a face of said container on an axis located intermediate the sides of the container as a resultant of said back and forth movement, whereby to to allow relative rocking exert a kneading action against said container for extruding its contained material through said apertured part.

2. In a device for spreading plastic surfacing material, a collapsible container of liquid impervious thin flexible substance in which a body of said material is enclosed, and a two part, rigid walled applicator enclosing and supporting the Walls of said container, said applicator including an apertured part for spreading the material upon a surface, and an opposed part for applying pressure to the container, the two parts being associated so as to allow relative rocking movement between them, and means associated with the pressure applying part, adapted for engagement by the hand of an operator, to transmit movement to the applicator for moving it back and forth over a surface to be treated, and to positively transmit rocking movement to the pres sure applying part so as to cause it to rock against a face of said container on an axis located intermediate the sides of the container as a resultant of said back and forth movement, whereby to exert a kneading action against said container for extruding its contained material through said apertured part.

3. In a device for spreading plasti surfacing material, a collapsible container of regenerated cellulose in which a body of said material is enclosed, and a two part, ri id walled applicator enclosing and supporting the walls of said container, said applicator including an aperture-:1 part for spreading the material upon a surface, and an opposed part for applying pressure to the container, the two parts being associated so as movement between them, and means associated with the pressure applying part, adapted for engagement by the hand of an operator, to transmit movement to the applicator for moving it bacl: and forth over a surface to be treated, and to positively transmit rocking movement to the pressure applying part soas to cause it to rock against a face of said container on an axis located intermediate the sides of the container as a resultant of said back and forth movement, whereby to exert kneading action against said container for vX- truding its contained material through said apertured part.

4. In a device for spreading p tic surfacing material, a collapsible container 0. liquid impervious thin flexible substance in which a body of said material is enclosed, and a two part applicator enclosing and supporting the walls of said container, said applicator including an apertured part for spreading the material upon a surface, and an opposed part for applying pressure to the container, the two parts being associated so as to allow relative rocking movement between them, and a handle, rigidly secured to the pressure applying part to transmit movement to the applicator for moving it back and forth over a surface to be treated, and to positively transmit rocking movement to the pressure applying part so as to cause it to rock against a face of said container on an axis located intermediate the sides of the container as a resultant of said back and forth movement, whereby to exert a kneading action against said container for extruding its contained material through said apertured part.

5. In a device for spreading plastic surfacing material, a collapsible container of liquid impervious flexible substance in which a body of said material is enclosed, a rigid walled receptacle receiving and supporting the walls of said container and provided with an aperture for extruding said material, a presser head loosely mounted in the receptacle in contact with a side of said container opposite said aperture, adapted to transmit movem nt thereto for moving the receptacle back and forth with its apertured side in engagement with a surface to be treated, and capable of rocking movement in said receptacle, and a handle attached to said presser head so as to posi vely transmit rocking movement thereto as resultant of the aforesaid back and forth movei: out w; ereby to cau e the presser head to rock against the face of container around an located intermediate the sides thereof.

6. In device for spreading plastic surfacing materi an elongated collapsible container of liquid impervious flexible substance in which a body of said material is enclosed, a rigid walled receptacle receiving and shaped to fit said container, said receptacle having a portion for en gagoinent with a surface to be treated, provided with an aperture extending substantially from end to end of the receptacle, a presser head loose- 1y mounted in the receptacle in contact with a face of said container opposite said apertured portion, adapted to transmit movement thereto for moving it back and forth with said apertured portion in engagement with said surface, and capable of rocking movement 'in the receptacle, and a handle rigidly attached to said presser head for moving the receptacle back and forth transversely of its longitudinal axis, whereby the presser head will be rocked against the face of said container around an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the receptacle and intermediate the sides of the container, for exerting a kneading action against the material in the container so as to extrude said material through said aperture.

FREDERICK RIEBEL, JR. LA'WRENCE M. BENSON. DEWEY M. DOW. 

